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Crabbox tightens VM cleanup ownership across providers

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Peter Steinberger hannesrudolph Vincent Koc wanyongstar
4 people shipped this
Peter Steinberger @steipete 8 cited hannesrudolph @hannesrudolph 2 cited Vincent Koc @vincentkoc 2 cited wanyongstar @wanyongstar 1 cited

Crabbox now requires exact local ownership claims before any automatic cleanup can delete a VM, closing destructive gaps across Tart, Proxmox, and Incus.

Crabbox hardened automatic cleanup across three VM providers by requiring a structurally consistent local claim bound to the provider, lease, and VM identity. Tart cleanup previously treated a stopped `crabbox-` name as permission to delete even with no lease; `crabbox cleanup --provider tart` returned success and removed the VM. Proxmox cleanup could stop and purge an expired, label-matched cluster VM with no local claim. Incus release and cleanup could delete legacy label-only instances without a durable record. All three now require exact durable ownership before destructive actions, removing the former scope-backfill helpers that treated absence as success [1] [2] [3].

WSL2 staging work in crabbox now bounds cleanup hashing and publishes complete exit results. The draft's main staged-transport implementation was superseded when a reopened PR merged as `2e52702ba45b1cc07b6f135c9ec5cc50bf6a17ef`, leaving two useful fixes: partial-stage cleanup uses a bounded context for remote observability, and staged preparation stays cancellable [4] [5].

OpenClaw 2026.8.1 shipped with search over visible conversation text. Users can now find exact words or phrases and reopen the surrounding messages from a matching result [6]. Three related Gateway fixes landed concurrently: one preserves agent ownership across global sessions and bindings, fixing lost replies, failed commands, and task notifications under the wrong agent [7]; another skips code-span placeholders consumed by HTML-tag stripping, which previously garbled and duplicated outbound text [8]; and a context-engine refactor ensures invalid compaction requests fail before they can compact a conversation [9].

The docs publishing pipeline now serves current content reliably. Mutable HTML aliases bypass the Worker Cache API and read directly from the R2 binding, fixing stale pages at canonical URLs after successful deploys [10]. A protected `purge_prefixes` input in the Pages workflow accepts a JSON array of 1 to 30 URL prefixes, letting operators purge stale cache entries by prefix [11]. Docs publishing no longer stalls during steady updates, and retired documentation URLs now export Markdown correctly instead of returning 404 or HTML [12] [13].

Action items

References

  1. [1] fix(tart): fence cleanup with exact VM ownership ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  2. [2] fix(proxmox): require exact ownership for automatic cleanup ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  3. [3] fix(incus): require durable ownership for release and cleanup ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  4. [4] fix(wsl2): bound cleanup hashing and publish complete exit results (#1615) ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  5. [5] fix(wsl2): bound cleanup hashing and publish complete exit results ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  6. [6] OpenClaw 2026.8.1 ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  7. [7] fix: preserve agent ownership across global sessions and bindings ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  8. [8] fix(outbound): skip code-span placeholders consumed by tag stripping (#125184) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  9. [9] refactor(context-engine): simplify compaction and turn handoffs ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  10. [10] fix: serve mutable docs HTML directly from R2 ↗ openclaw/docs
  11. [11] fix: allow docs cache prefix purge ↗ openclaw/docs
  12. [12] fix: preserve Markdown exports for retired documentation ↗ openclaw/docs
  13. [13] fix: keep docs publishing during steady updates ↗ openclaw/docs

$ ls openclaw/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the month in review 2026.8.1-beta.2 binds secrets to exact HTTPS hosts
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Quick answers

What shipped in OpenClaw on August 31, 2026?
Crabbox now requires exact local ownership claims before any automatic cleanup can delete a VM, closing destructive gaps across Tart, Proxmox, and Incus. In total, 151 commits, 58 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenClaw on August 31, 2026?
4 developers shipped this update, including Peter Steinberger, wanyongstar, hannesrudolph, and Vincent Koc.
What were the notable OpenClaw updates?
fix(tart): fence cleanup with exact VM ownership, fix(proxmox): require exact ownership for automatic cleanup, and fix(incus): require durable ownership for release and cleanup.
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$ log @openclaw --recent

Gesture update rollback guard fixed; Slack slackens redundant work 150 shipped Catalog refreshes stop hiding failures; APFS checkpoints survive live logs 161 shipped Gateway fixes bind cancellations to exact live runs; hot reload keeps webhook retries 150 shipped OpenClaw and OCM harden upgrades: atomic commits, macOS signing, deduplicated doc builds 168 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Meta React Native adds Stable API guards to renderer attributed string FastAPI & Pydantic Pydantic fixes Mypy plugin crash, tightens datetime constraints

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